JAGERO

What does impossible really mean? Is anything truly impossible? I have a few things that I think have been BOLD. I considered them impossible. But finally I did it. I have not cycled for 40,000 miles. I consider it an impossible. I sat down with Elvis Munis who traveled by bicycle from Chile to Tanzania. He tells me the story of how he slept hungry for days. He reminisces taking coca leaves. Humans can’t fly, but the Wright brothers proved an airplane could get us close enough. We can’t...

This is my naive understanding of friendship: Friendship is letting someone come close to you: To the parts of me that remain hidden to the rest of the world. Letting you see the little potentialities lingering inside of me even those that are yet to be/or need to be actualized. For a while it has always meant something deeper: To let you, as a friend, to see with their very own eyes the darkness and light that compose me. By doing so, I reveal to you the very essence of what it means to be...

I have been wooed by a woman. In fact, she wrote me a letter and this did not happen last ten years ago. It happened last year. Not once. I have always wanted to talk to a lady and hear how women woo men and the thinking behind it. And I got in touch with Sheila Sheila who told me a vivid description of how she wooed a man. She tells me how she asked for a number from a dude. And she got him. This is podcast is her story and our discussion around the issue.

I speak my mind all the time. Do you speak up when you feel you need to? You see something ethically questionable. Notice someone not being included. Run up against offensive speech. Disagree with an opinion that’s all too quickly become consensus. Want to add a different idea to the decision-making process. While we’d all like to think that if we saw something, we’d say something in these situations, we are strikingly bad at anticipating how we’ll feel in future circumstances and, for a...

How do you ACTUALLY feel as a woman? This is the most intimate conversation I have had with a woman about being a woman in 2020, or in modern times. I wanted to have this conversation because I thought I needed to have it. I wanted to have it because woman confuse me - as they confuse many other men. I wanted to hear it because Amanda Grafe said something that is deep, really deep. She said… Being a woman has brought with it both heartache and joy, but mostly it has shackled me to a role...

By the word life normally we think about physical aspects that includes breathing, having a body, sense of organs, and this whole physical situational world around us which sometimes we control and sometimes we don't. The physical manifestation of all this is a life of the materialistic world which you meant in the question where we see all we feel all we live all we do all that is controllable by our physical body only the part which can be. The other form of life is the life of a...

The idea of being a man is no longer what it was. Men were were asked to be strong, not to cry (or do it in the toilet if they have to), be the leader, the bread winner, and not wash dishes, or baby sit. They have been told to see themselves as equal to women. That women can do what they can - even do it better. There is feminism, which fights for the equality of women and in so doing, questions what it is to be a man, which obviously affects men pretty directly. I wanted to know what a...

In the words of Njoki Ngumi... There are three main concerns Kenyans from all walks of life have during illness or any manner of health crisis: 1) Who is going to take care of me, and where do I have to go to access that care? 2) Will all the options I need for full care be available to me, and are they the best ones there are? 3) Who is going to pay for the options I take? Is it going to have to be me, and what does that mean for my budget and my life? How does it feel to be a Kenyan...

I have published three books and I have a fourth on the way. The truth is that it has been a tough, tough journey. Then there is writing; a tough thing as a Kenyan. Then we have all the writers in this country who have loads of manuscripts that cannot be published one way of the other. What is happening? We had Kwani? that everyone thought was going to step in forcefully. That is arguable. Then we have many more such as Jalada. We discussed it. Candidly. Troy Onyango runs Lolwe and he is...

In this series, "How I feel as a..." I am speaking to different people in different disciplines and careers. My guest, Brian Ogola, is a Kenyan film, stage and television actor. His film, Poacher is coming to Netflix on the 30th Sept. 2020. Ogola discovered his passion, love and appreciation for performing arts in high school but begun acting professionally in 2012. His break out role was in the hit Kenyan television series JANE AND ABEL produced by Dorothy Ghettuba, where he was cast as...

If you’re wondering how tarot cards work, basically, it is designed to be a one-to-one mirror of your reality. Each card represents a specific person, event, or energy, and as you select certain cards and lay them gently on a surface, you begin to understand the complexities of any situation. Right before your eyes, your entire narrative is illuminated through colors, characters, and symbols. In just a matter of seconds, tarot offers a window into your past, present, and future. I had a one...

Oduor Jagero speaks about his writing. Wobanda speaks about her editing. How Oduor writes. How Wobanda writes and edits. We talk about whether a writer imposes their beliefs into their writing.

Women are good. So much love and care come from women. There is also a lot of online controversies, misunderstandings, and discussions around the place that women occupy in the society. Onyango Otieno, an Afro-masculinity champion has been very much on the forefront on issues affecting women; specifically, he has been directing his opinions and beliefs to the men. Now I have been to Rix's wall and something is pretty disturbing. That men don't comment on his posts (about women). On the...

Should men marry women who are older in age? Well, I am discussing this with David Aswani. We discuss if a man marrying an older woman is after something or love. I would love to know what your feelings are. Lets chat.

I have lived with pain for close to ten years. Omondi Ochuka has lived with pain a little bit more than that. Ochuka suffers from liver cancer and I suffer from Planta Fasciitis. In this episode, we talk about how to live with pain. What we take for pain. You can leave you comments about your pain or any other comment that you have.